Animal-rights activist and PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk is "grilled" in Mumbai to
protest the eating of meat. PETA is observing World Vegan Month in November to promote health, the
environment and an animal-friendly vegan diet.

Taxi drivers block a main thoroughfare in Islamabad
during a protest near parliament in Islamabad. The cabbies were protesting the Pakistani traffic police for
reasons the photographer did not feel compelled to include.

of a sanitation workers and street cleaners strike in Madrid, and already the streets are filling with litter.

It's only day one

of a sanitation workers and street cleaners strike in Madrid, and already the streets are filling with litter.

Photo: Andres Kudacki, Associated Press

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Protesters demonstrate

under a plastic tarp during a rainy 24-hour general strike in Athens. City transit
and public services were disrupted as EU-IMF auditors worked to finalize the recession-strapped country's next
budget, which could bring more unpopular cuts.

This image shows three phases in the creation of the computer-generated 10-year-old Filipino girl called
Sweetie. Dutch children’s rights activists set up an online sting operation in an Amsterdam warehouse and
used Sweetie to lure sex predators. Over 10 weeks, they successfully unmasked more than 1,000
Internet users from 71 countries who wanted to pay to watch a child engage in sex acts via webcam.

Palanquin bearers carrying effigies of the gods ram other palanquins in the climax of the Dewa Masraman Ritual in Klungkung Regency, Bali. The litter-bearing teams rush around the temple in a trance-like state, crashing into each other like Bumper Cars.

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Hindu devotees lie down

in front of oncoming cattle during a ritual of the Govardhan Puja festival in Dhar, India. The worshippers were celebrating the day Lord Krishna lifted Govardhan Mountain to save villagers from excessive rains.